The burden of its blueprint
The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, sperhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.― Jorge Luis Borges, The library of Babel “Until then I had thought […]
Monthly Archives: October 2023
Replacement parts
From the deepest bramble tanglethere’s a breaking as from bonesand flesh that’s torn away and mangled.Deep in fall when from the stonesthe dead unravel; claiming warmthfrom veins of living bodies, […]
Bodycount
Counting bodiespiece by piece:two armsa head, hands and toesand buckets of fluidmixed with soil,parts distinguishable by DNA,sorted as friend or foe, an aftermathamalgamated intoone collective of pastand passing. … and […]
Our burden, boys
From mud and gangrene boys we formed to hatethe neighbours, former friends we turned to foes,while we sang songs, made graves, for those whose fatewas death, we left the others […]
The last of fall
The past week autumn colours are falling to the ground, dead leaves sticking to the wet asphalt, leaving skeletal trees as black shadows against an overcast sky. From time to […]
Björn Rudbergs writings 